wrote on Feb 16^th, 2002 at 12:35pm:

I was watching a report on TV regarding the figure skating scandal, and there was this protest against the judges (particularly against the French and Russian judges I think) where someone had a huge sign reading: "Polygraph the judges!" I had to laugh. But I knew it's still a sad fact that the public at large trusts polygraph tests.. I wonder where polygraph law will be the next time the winter olympics roll around..

I saw that as well. Actually, the sign read: "Drug test the athletes, polygraph the judges!" As an ex-athlete myself (made it as far as the Olympic Trials in 1992), I have to scoff at *both* premises. Every athlete that makes it as far as the Olympics will have ingested banned substances at one point or other in preparation for the games. The ability to hide or mask the banned substances is childishly easy and compares with the ease with which one can pass a polygraph.